More Fodder for Impeachment

Friday

Jun 6, 2014 at 5:10 PM

A number of years ago I served as a moot court judge for high school students in a case in which parents of a kidnapped child were being prosecuted for not informing the police of the kidnapping of their child. There defense was that the kidnappers had told the parents that the child would be harmed if the police were contacted. So in the fact pattern, the parents pay the ransom, they don’t tell the police, the kidnappers get away, and the parents go to jail for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence and child endangerment. You see, in American law, it is illegal to obstruct a criminal investigation of a kidnapping, regardless of the threats made by the criminals. So, here is Barry’s defense for not telling Congress that it was about to swap a likely deserter for 5 “worst of the worst” still being held at Gitmo:

“WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has told senators it didn’t notify Congress about the pending swap of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban officials because the Taliban had threatened to kill him if the deal was made public, three congressional officials have told The Associated Press.

The threat, – not just concerns that Bergdahl’s health might be failing – drove the Obama administration to quickly make the deal to rescue him, the officials said Thursday. The threat was transmitted by Qatari officials at the height of the negotiations, they said.”

So, now, not only are the Taliban running Afghanistan, they are giving instructions to Barry not to meet his constitutional and legal obligations to Congress? Oh, please. I was only taking orders? From the Taliban? So I acted in contempt of Congress? And of the law?

Impeachment proceedings are long overdue.

Rob Meltzer

A number of years ago I served as a moot court judge for high school students in a case in which parents of a kidnapped child were being prosecuted for not informing the police of the kidnapping of their child. There defense was that the kidnappers had told the parents that the child would be harmed if the police were contacted. So in the fact pattern, the parents pay the ransom, they don’t tell the police, the kidnappers get away, and the parents go to jail for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence and child endangerment. You see, in American law, it is illegal to obstruct a criminal investigation of a kidnapping, regardless of the threats made by the criminals. So, here is Barry’s defense for not telling Congress that it was about to swap a likely deserter for 5 “worst of the worst” still being held at Gitmo:

“WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has told senators it didn’t notify Congress about the pending swap of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban officials because the Taliban had threatened to kill him if the deal was made public, three congressional officials have told The Associated Press.

The threat, – not just concerns that Bergdahl’s health might be failing – drove the Obama administration to quickly make the deal to rescue him, the officials said Thursday. The threat was transmitted by Qatari officials at the height of the negotiations, they said.”

So, now, not only are the Taliban running Afghanistan, they are giving instructions to Barry not to meet his constitutional and legal obligations to Congress? Oh, please. I was only taking orders? From the Taliban? So I acted in contempt of Congress? And of the law?